ZynewaveOk, I understand. To find out why this particular ASIO driver causes Podium to hang on startup, I think I’ll need to add an option to write startup progress to a log file. I’m going to visit family this weekend, but next week I’ll see if I can get a beta version ready that you can test with.
ZynewaveIf you worked on a project, does this mean you have gotten Podium to start up without hanging?
Are you using jBridge?
If you still experience problems, also try temporarily to increase the ASIO buffer size, to see if that improves stability. I use a buffer size of 512. Smaller buffer sizes can hurt performance, and make it more sensible to CPU spikes.
ZynewaveThe report looks ok. At least the driver is running when you initially enable it. In order to try to pinpoint the problem, could you please try the following:
Delete the Podium.ini file and start Podium.
On the Preferences/Plugins page, disable ReWire and jBridge (if you have it installed).
Restart Podium.
Enable your Prodipe audio driver, but only enable the main stereo output (no inputs).
Restart Podium.
If Podium hangs on startup, try the steps above once again, but this time select 44100 instead of 48000 samplerate.
ZynewaveThe next few releases will be minor improvements and bug fixes. I’m currently revising the code that handles VST plugin loading. The next feature update will be 3.3, and it will mostly include various UI improvements. I’ve recently purchased a 23″ touch display, so I’m experimenting with adding gesture support to Podium. That may appear in 3.3.
ZynewaveZynewaveOk, so when you start Podium, the splash screen displays forever and the main window never appears?
If you delete the Podium.ini file, then start Podium and go into the Audio/MIDI dialog. Can you then enable the Prodipe driver without getting any errors?
If you can, please go to the Report page in the dialog, and copy/paste the report here (or email it to me).
ZynewaveWhat are you doing in the UI when the crash occurs?
If the problem happens to be some compatibility issue with the Prodipe ASIO driver, you could try the asio4all.com driver. Often this driver performs better than many native ASIO drivers.
ZynewaveIs this your interface?
http://www.prodipe.com/en/products/interfaces-audio/item/369-studio-88-pro-usb
I assume you have the latest 2.0 ASIO driver installed.
If you open the Audio/MIDI dialog from the Podium Setup menu, does the Prodipe ASIO driver appear in the list?
ZynewaveI tested demo versions of Waves surround plugins years ago, and at that time the Podium plugin scanning was able to automatically import all the plugins through the Waveshell. They may have changed the system since then.
About the “This plugin could not be loaded” message: Perhaps there are multiple versions of the dlls. Make sure you select x86/x64 versions matching the Podium version you use.
ZynewaveIs there perhaps some option in the keyboard MIDI setup menus where you can disable transmission of MMC or system real-time messages?
ZynewaveHi John,
Sorry for the late reply. Podium has no embedded preset browser in the plugin window, but you can use the “Load…” button on the inspector preset panel.
ZynewaveZynewaveHi Shields. I fixed some issues with the detection of free memory in 3.2.2, which I thought had solved the problem. Podium 3.2.2 will use up to half the available free memory for caching sound in memory, before it starts to write the cache to disk. You reported earlier that you saw memory usage up to +3 GB. That should be fixed in 3.2.2 to stay well below 2 GB on a PC with 4 GB.
For the upcoming Podium 3.2.3 I’ve added a “sound cache maximum memory usage” setting to the engine preferences page. I’ve set the default to 512 MB. This should further reduce the risk of plugins running out of memory during rendering.
ZynewaveThanks for reporting this. This is fixed in the upcoming 3.2.3 release. The auto-assigned audio input will be assigned to the composite group track if any tracks within the composite group has focus.
ZynewaveSorry, it’s still not clear to me. I’m curious as to why you wan’t to route all your normal and bus return tracks to a single submix track? If the only purpose of the submix track is to route the audio to the master track, and no other tracks are going to the master track, then why not go straight to the master?
I’m close to logging off for today, and I’ll be travelling to visit family tomorrow, so it may be a couple of days before I can reply again.